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Benjamin Hennig, a postgraduate researcher at the University's Department of Geography, was part of the team that created the maps using the gridded population of the world database of the Global Rural-Urban Mapping Project.

Mr Hennig said the new projections give an "interesting insight into different countries".

He added: "The map of Afghanistan, for example, shows a country dominated by Kabul and a few other urban centres.

"The UK on this new global projection is a tale of London and the other cities.

"The United States, on the other hand, has much more variety to its human geography, while the new projection of China shows a sea of humanity bubbled up into a thousand cities in the Eastern part of the country."